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The Evolution Of A Campus Conservative Revisited
I arrived at Wash U in 2015 a doe-eyed Republican, having spent my first eighteen years in perennially red South Dakota. I grew up among climate change deniers, gay marriage opposers, and gun enthusiasts. I was practically weaned on Fox News. Though I managed to emerge from this environment with some socially liberal views (primarily…
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Table Talk
Watching the sunrise through the window, I remain in the same spot I first sat down in eighteen hours prior. The diner had cleared out except for my best friend and me in a booth, and the people working the early shift. The sound of the coffee brewing and our stomachs grumbling from a sugar…
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Economic Policy: Putting “Magic” in the Campaign
The Oct. 9 debate between the economic advisers to Trump and Clinton may have lacked allegations of sexual harassment, threats of jailing the opposing party’s nominee, and a television audience numbering in the tens of millions, but it did contain allegations of “magic” and plenty of wild hand gesticulations. Early in the afternoon on Oct.…
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Here Come the Clydesdales
Eight massive Clydesdales strapped into black and gold harnesses adorned with red and white ribbons towered over a crowd at Brookings Hall this afternoon. The world-famous Anheuser Busch Clydesdales are no new site to St. Louis, in fact, Anheuser Busch’s main stable is just twenty minutes away, but today they galloped onto campus for the…
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Taka’s live blogging the VP Debate right now!
After what’s been called everything from a mild setback for POTUS to a Barry-O-whopping by Republican challenger Mitt Romney last week, the stakes are high as the two running mates face off in tonight. Welcome to the 2012 Vice Presidential Debate! The Vice Presidents will be scrabbling over every policy issue, but if Paul Ryan…
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Talking Heads: Winston Churchill
For this week’s edition of Talking Heads, WUPR was able to procure a time machine though our extensive and possibly sinister connections. WUPR was purchasing our Student Union allotted twenty Kalashnikovs in an Islamabad gun market when a Pakistani merchant fooled WUPR representatives into buying a faulty product. The seller had failed to tell us…
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Politics: Civil and Dangerous
The changing face of elections U.S presidential elections are known, among other things, for elaborate campaigns. Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign is destined to go down in history for the way it was able to convince people that the election was more about bringing sweeping social change than it was about electing a new head of…
